2IO iRiMnc IRecollections an& Uxwt Stories 



' Boiard ' had beaten ' Doncaster,' ' Kaiser,' ' Marie 

 Stuart,' 'Flageolet,' and 'Gang Forward' in the 

 Gold Cup the day before, and many people thought 

 him a wonder. I said : 



" Don't be surprised. Squire, if I beat him." 



" What !" he answered, " what, with ' King Lud '? 

 He is only a common handicap horse." 



I told him to go to his friend, Mr. Savile, and 

 ask him how much ' Kaiser ' was behind ' Cremorne ' 

 for the year, and he told him at least a stone ; so I 

 said to Mr. Chaplin : 



" If you look at the book you will find ' King 

 Lud' was about i8 lb. behind 'Cremorne,' perhaps 

 2 1 lb. ; so, if you look at it in that light, ' Boiard ' 

 has not so much in hand as you think." 



Instead of backing the French horse at even 

 money, Mr. Chaplin took 6 to i about mine ; 

 but the public are apt to be led away by the 

 fame of a horse that has won a Two Thousand, 

 Derby, or St. Leger. Here, for instance, was a 

 horse which had beaten the most representative 

 field (so far as classic horses were concerned) that 

 had ever been seen together ; there were the first 

 and second in the Two Thousand Guineas, the first, 

 second, and third in the Derby, the winner of the 

 Oaks, and the first three in the St. Leger : all these 



